Of Romney's 844 vetoes, 707 were overridden by the legislature, some unanimously. Romney vetoed money for housing the homeless, vetoed a bill honoring a student's right not to dissect animals, vetoed a raise in the minimum wage. A company on whose board he served was fined 83 million dollars for Medicare fraud. He was accused of tax evasion in preparing Marriott International's tax forms.

Merck officials claim the practice is not uncommon throughout the pharmaceutical industry and that Ross’s conclusion that the authors named in these publications don’t actually participate adequately is false